Abstract

These volumes continue the Franciscan Institute's splendid critical edition of Ockham's lectures on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. As the editors note, each is a "reportatio" or student report of the actual lectures Ockham gave as a bachelor of theology at Oxford rather than an Ordinatio or revision prepared for publication and distribution to the book sellers, which a bachelor usually did in the interval between the completion of the lectures and the formal proceedings connected with his inception as master. Ockham, for whatever reason, found time only to do such a detailed revision on his lectures on the first book, and this mainly on the earlier questions he had treated there. An idea of the extent of such a revision can be gleaned from the fact that Ockham's questions on the first book alone ran to four volumes whereas his questions on each of the next two books is easily contained in a single volume of normal size.